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ProfessorGAC

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39. I'm With You, Except...

Tue Jul 13, 2021, 03:52 PM

Jul 2021

...the electrolyte content in natural gas (predominantly sodium carbonate) is nearly irrelevant compared to CO2 emissions from combustion.
There also trace amounts of metals in natural gas, quantitated by ICP at low single digit parts per billion, or parts per trillion.
The natural gas "peaker" plants around here have sophisticated scrubbing systems that are interlocked to the operation. (Permits are written such that if an emitting process has a pollution abatement unit operation, the former can't run if the latter is not working.). So, emissions from that source is extremely miniscule, if even detectable.
Are they in there? Absolutely!
Is that really the reason we should drift away from this & other combustion sources? I don't think so.
Everything else you wrote, I agree with.

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